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Segue Migration and Technology Work Sessions

Alex Chapin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:05:23 +0000

Beginning Jan. 1st, 2012, we will be disabling the creation of new sites in Segue with the goal of eventually turning off Segue on August 31, 2012. To help faculty move their Segue sites to other platforms, we have scheduled a number of Segue Migration Workshops:

1-2pm, Tues, Jan 10th, Library 105 (sign up)
2-3pm, Weds, Jan 11th, Library 105 (sign up)
1-2pm, Weds, Jan 18th, Library 105 (sign up)

Assistance with migrating Segue sites will also be available during Curricular Technology work sessions:

2-3 pm, Jan 12th, Library 105 (sign up)
3-4 pm, Jan 19th, Library 105 (sign up)
11 am-12 pm, Jan 24th, Library 105 (sign up)
2-3 pm, Jan 26th, Library 105 (sign up)

Finally we will also be offering more workshops on WordPress and Moodle:

3-4pm, Jan 11th, Library 105, Introduction to Moodle (sign up)
2-3pm, Jan 18th, Library 105, Introduction to Moodle (sign up)
4-5pm, Jan 11th, Library 105, Introduction to WordPress (sign up)
4-5pm, Jan 18th, Library 105, Introduction to WordPress (sign up)

Course Hub Overview

Alex Chapin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:12:09 +0000

The Course Hub was the principal recommendation for how best to Segue from Segue made by the Curricular Technology team in the fall of 2010. The Course Hub has been in use at Middlebury for nearly a semester now, having been launched by the LIS Web Application Development group in September 2011.

To help others understand this innovative, curricular resource aggregation platform, I made a screencast that gives an overview of its design.

This is one of a series of Course Hub screencasts we will be publishing in the coming weeks. Check out the Teaching with Technology blog to see Course Hub Case Studies

Additional Curricular Technology Work Session

Alex Chapin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:29:29 +0000

We have scheduled 2 additional Curricular Technology work sessions before the holidays on the following date:

10-11 am, Mon, Dec 19th, Library 105 (sign up)
1-2 pm, Tues, Dec 20th, Library 105 (sign up)

Curricular Technology Workshops

Alex Chapin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:57:05 +0000

As the semester draws to a close, the Curricular Technology team has scheduled workshops and work sessions for faculty on various platforms that are available for teaching and learning. Workshops typically provide overviews of a given platform. Work sessions are designed to provide hands on support and consultation. Here is the schedule:

2-3 pm, Thurs, Dec 8th, Library 105, Introduction to Moodle (sign up)
3-4 pm, Thurs, Dec 8th, Library 105, Introduction to WordPress (sign up)
3-4 pm, Tues, Dec 13th, Library 105, Curricular Technologies Work Session (sign up)
2-3 pm, Wed, Dec 14th, Library 105, Curricular Technologies Work Session (sign up)

For more information about these workshops, see: Workshops

For information about all workshops offered by LIS in December see:
On-campus Workshops > Schedule

More Moodle Work Sessions

Alex Chapin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:52:57 +0000

We have scheduled more Moodle work sessions:

3:00-4:30, Monday, Sept 12, Library 105
3:30-5:00, Tuesday, Sept 13, Library 105

Feel free to drop by during these sessions to work on your Moodle site or just ask us questions.

Moodle and Course Hub Work Sessions

Alex Chapin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:38:33 +0000

Many faculty and staff have attended our workshops on the Course Hub, Moodle and WordPress. To help people get started on their sites, we have scheduled a number of work sessions:

10:00-11:00 am Weds, Sept 7th, Library 105
10:00-12:00 pm Thurs, Sept 8th, Library 105
2:00-4:00 pm Thurs, Sept 8th, Library 105
10:00-12:00 pm Fri, Sept 9th, Library 105

These work sessions are an opportunity to work on your sites with support staff. For more information on all workshops, see: Workshops

WordPress / Course Hub Training Sessions

Alex Chapin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:02:26 +0000

The Curricular Technology team has organized training sessions on the Course Hub and WordPress, a popular platform that has been in use at Middlebury for a number of years now. Below is more information on these sessions:

11:00 am -12:00 pm, Wednesday, August 31, Library 105
11:00 am -12:00 pm, Thursday, Sept 1, MBH 161 (Armstrong Library, Bi Hall)
4:00-5:00 pm, Tuesday, Sept 6, Library 105
3:00-4:00 pm, Wednesday, Sept 7, Library 105

These sessions have been scheduled before or after similar sessions on Moodle, Middlebury’s new learning management system (LMS). Both of these platforms can be used for course sites. To learn more about how they differ, see: Curricular Technologies Platform Overview

To attend one of these sessions, please fill out our sign up form, see:
WordPress / Course Hub Workshop Sign Up

Moodle / Course Hub Training Sessions

Alex Chapin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:37:10 +0000

The Curricular Technology team has organized training sessions on the Course Hub and Moodle, Middlebury’s new learning management system. Below is more information on these sessions:

1:00-2:00 pm, Thursday, August 25, Library 105
1:00-2:00 pm, Friday, August 26, Library 105
10:00-11:00 am, Thursday, Sept 1, MBH 161
10:00-11:00 am, Friday, Sept 2, Library 105
3:00-4:00 pm, Tuesday, Sept 6, Library 105
4:00-5:00 pm, Wednesday, Sept 7, Library 105

To attend one of these sessions, please fill out our sign up form, see:
Moodle / Course Hub Workshop Sign Up

New Platforms for Teaching, Learning and Research

Alex Chapin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:13:33 +0000

Beginning next fall with the 2011-12 academic year, Segue will be replaced by a collection of platforms connected by the Course Hub. The Course Hub will become the definitive starting point for all online course resources and will provide links to other platforms including WordPress, ERES and soon Moodle, our new learning management system (LMS).

To help with the transition of sites from Segue to one of these new platforms, Curricular Technology (CT) team will be organizing workshops throughout the summer for faculty and staff. The first series of workshops will begin next week:

Curricular Technology Platforms Overview

1:00 – 2:00 pm, Tues, June 21, Library 105

Moodle workshop

2-3:30 pm, Weds, June 22, Library 105

WordPress workshop

1-2:30 pm, Fri, June 24, Library 105

Moodle @ Middlebury

Alex Chapin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:27:05 +0000

Moodle has been selected as the primary learning management system (LMS) for Middlebury College. Other LMS platforms considered were Sakai and Blackboard. The Curricular Technology (CT) team researched these three LMS platforms extensively and organized a pilot program that involved over 20 faculty and more than 300 students.

Surveys of pilot participants indicated that more faculty and students who completed the survey considered Moodle the most useful and easy to use of the LMS platforms piloted. The CT team used an template developed by the Longsight Group (see: Longsight > LMS Selection Criteria) to do its own evaluation and came to similar conclusions.

Moodle has been in use at Middlebury since 2007, primarily for online assessment. Beginning in the Fall of 2011, Moodle will be fully integrated into the new Course Hub platform which will become the definitive starting point for all new online course resources.